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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Multisensory Structured Language






2. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






3. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






4. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






5. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






6. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






7. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






8. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






9. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






10. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






11. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






12. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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13. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






14. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






15. Whole body learning






16. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






17. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






18. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






19. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






20. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






21. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






22. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






23. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






24. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






25. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






26. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






27. r-controlled syllable






28. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






29. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






30. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






31. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






32. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






33. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






34. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






35. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






36. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






37. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






38. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






39. Academic Language Therapy Association






40. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






41. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






42. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






43. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






45. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






46. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






47. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






48. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






49. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






50. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.